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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Alfred Brendel born?
2. Who won the Leventritt competition in 1954, but his victory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 made his name and musical competition well-known?
3. When was Glenn Gould born?
4. In what year did Leopold Godowsky suffer a stroke?
5. Who was described by the author as an incomparable pianist who added new theories and ideas about pedaling and sonority with new ideas of figuration and layout?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Artur Schnabel and what was his expertise in music? How is Schnabel described?
2. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?
3. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?
4. What advances in piano technique are described in Chapter XXXI, New Philosophies, New Styles? Where did they originate?
5. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?
6. What advances and contributions did Glenn Gould bring to musical presentation?
7. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?
8. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
9. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?
10. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the two pianists presented in Chapter XIII, Two Sensitive Ones, Charles Henri Valentin Morhange and Adolf Henselt. Why did the author choose this title for the chapter?
Essay Topic 2
How did the processes of piano manufacturing change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? What impact did this have on the piano's popularity?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the biography and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. What advancements was Beethoven responsible for in the style and technique of piano and composition?
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